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migueldemouraon Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience

> Fwiw, Cloudflare does do a multivariate confidence check which is why it has multiple tiers: no captcha, a one-click captcha, the annoying puzzle captcha once, the annoying puzzle captcha six times in a row.

That's not correct, Cloudflare challenge pages / Turnstile will never show you a puzzle.

migueldemouraon Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

That User-Agent won't trigger the block page you were experiencing.

No clue about the issues with Google, perhaps some feature detection going on?

migueldemouraon Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

> Cloudflare lets their customers write their own WAF regex rules right?

No, but customers can request a custom WAF rule to be written by Cloudflare engineers specifically for their domain.